Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Keseywas an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 September 1935
CityLa Junta, CO
CountryUnited States of America
writing america get-better
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
warrior firsts poet
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
wow scene rendezvous
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
fun taken having-fun
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
literature broke stills
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
baptism literature want
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
retirement people fabric
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
christian stones acid
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
people guy waiting
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
hands numbers meaning-nothing
- he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
ocean beats ends
Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
powerful men thinking
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
country thinking order
I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.